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When I was a baby, my Dad's career had us moving around the country on a fairly nomadic basis. Mamacita will tell you, bored with a baby in various big cities, she'd bring me to the art museums. She claims it was then, cruising marble hallways in the stroller with my sippy cup, that my love for the art museum was born.

And it’s true, I do still love a good one. The grand, perfectly symmetrical entryways. The audioguides. Planning your gallery strategy to maximize your time. Not planning your gallery strategy and getting completely lost in one section, room, or work, for hours. Rooms that randomly lead into other wings, other staircases, filled with more surprises, more art. Leaning in and seeing the brushstrokes close up. Experiencing the size of a painting, whether it's surprisingly big (Picasso's Guernica), or smaller than you woulda thought (Da Vinci's Mona Lisa). The connection of standing in front of canvas, in the same view the artist did years ago, and feeling that physical energy... Wow. Proper imagining of the time period and context it was painted in truly has the power to transport you to another world. That magical 30 minutes as the museum empties out before she closes and you have the masterpieces to yourself. And when it's time to leave, I'm never sad to go because it means walking through the gift shop. I always make sure to buy an exhibit poster or a print of a work on display, (I have dreams of having a big wall filled with framed, classy versions of the semi-banged up collection I've drug around the world with me in cardboard tubes.) Touchdown in a new city and one of my first thoughts always is, do they have any art museums? What do they have? The masters justify the ticket price, but the potential to fall in love with NEW artists keeps the thrill alive. Hell, my tinder bio currently reads, “Art museums by day, party animal by night."

Like everything, Mama knows best and is probably right. My love for the art museum was born decades ago, and grew with me into my current artist self. When I see kids wandering a gallery my heart swells. 'There goes some future creatives. Getting inspired and they don't even know it,' I think to myself.

So let’s go kill a couple hours and wander around those marble hallways. And in the meantime, here are a few of my favorite afternoons spent with audioguides 

Louvre. Paris, France. October 2015.

Georgia O'Keefe Museum. Santa Fe, US. Oct 2016. 

de Young. San Francisco, CA. January 2015.

MALBA. Buenos Aires, Argentina. May 2016. 

Louvre. Paris, France. October 2015.

Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto, Canada. Feb 2015.

Louvre. Paris, France. October 2014.

Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto, Canada. March 2015.

Tate Modern. London, UK. September 2014.

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Kansas City, MO. 2017.

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Santa Fe, NM. Oct 2016.

Musée d'Orsay. Paris, France. October 2015. 

Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto, Canada. Feb 2015.

Postcards in Barcelona, Spain. December 2015. 

Tate Modern. London, UK. September 2016.

Tate Modern. London, UK. September 2014.

MACBA. Barcelona, Spain. Oct 2015.

LACMA. Los Angeles, CA. March 2016.

Museu Coleção Berardo. Lisbon, Portugal. Dec 2014.

Belvedere. Vienna, Austria. September 2014.

Uffizi. Florence, Italy. August 2015. 

 El Reina Sofía. Madrid, Spain. September 2014. 

Louvre. Paris, France. October 2014.

Kunsthistorisches. Vienna, Austria. July 2015.

 El Reina Sofía. Madrid, Spain. August 2015.

Tate Modern. London, UK. September 2016.

Musée d'Orsay. Paris, France. October 2015.

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